LEAR EDWARD: (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and Poet. A.L.S., Mr Lear, in the third person, one page, 8vo, Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, n.d. (c.1853), to Mrs. Bond. Lear thanks his correspondent for her obliging letter and the Post Office order for eight shillings, continuing 'The set of songs was sent, yesterday: & Mr. Lear hopes it may arrive safely, though he now wishes he had kept them till he had heard from Mrs. Bond. Mr Church was his adviser, & the address was said to be sufficient to ensure their safety. Should there be any difficulty, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Lear's landlord, will answer any enquiries after Mr. L. has gone'. With integral leaf, the verso of which bears a printed advertisement for the publication of Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson, set to music and inscribed to Mrs. Alfred Tennyson by Edward Lear, inviting applications for copies at a price of eight shillings for the set of four. Some light overall age wear, a few minor spots of foxing and a few neat splits at the edges of the folds, G